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  1. Not according to David Icke on Watch How the Moon Was Formed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who says it's hollow, and was towed here by aliens.

  2. But wait: How to drop from 5th to 23rd place... on Ford Tests DIY Firmware Updates · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...in the JD Power IQS Customer Satisfaction Rankings:
    "Ford went from a fifth place ranking in the 2011 J.D. Power Initial Quality Study to a mediocre 23rd place showing this year. Sister-brand Lincoln took a similar nosedive, falling from eighth place all the way down to 17th place this year. ... Not surprisingly, MyFord Touch was the biggest contributor to Ford's fall from grace. "
    And who designed the MyFord touch? Give you one guess.

  3. So merely days after announcing the G-Cloud... on Microsoft's Azure Cloud Suffers Major Downtime · · Score: 2

    ...the British Governments Cloud service suffers the inevitable Microsoft kiss of death.

  4. In Scotland too? on Siri To Power Mercedes-Benz Car Systems · · Score: 2

    Spock: "Fascinating"

  5. Houston, we have a problem on Chinese iPad Trademark Battle Hits California Court · · Score: 2

    Steve Jobs personally was the only one who knew how to operate the reality distortion field. Now he's gone, it's thrashing about wildly causing all manner of worldwide chaos, such as this zombie Chinese company thinking it still owns the rights to the name it sold to someone because, err, that someone since sold it to Apple.

  6. Re:patent office rubber stamps whatever comes in on Oracle's Java Claims Now Down To $230 Million · · Score: 1

    That's it! And for completion, here's the video of the subsequent court cases.

  7. Re:What does Bing do? on Microsoft Accuses Google of Violating Internet Explorer's Privacy Settings · · Score: 0

    It serves results from Google. And that sites been up an awful long time for any errors, misconceptions and ... FUD to have been discovered and corrected by now, so we'll just leave it to the astroturfers to mod down the truth whilst enjoying their hugely entertaining comedy squirming around having been caught red handed. This happens every time that link is mentioned on Slashdot. Why, its almost like the $5 per handset Android extortion - there's clearly no way to deal with such disgusting behaviour other than paying shills to bury it.

  8. Re:Woah! That's BOTH feet hit with the BFG! on Microsoft's Antivirus Briefly Flags Google.com As Malicious · · Score: -1, Troll

    Perhaps in your scramble to open this months m$ astroturf cheque you never made it to the second sentence: "However you define copying, the bottom line is, these Bing results came directly from Google."

  9. Woah! That's BOTH feet hit with the BFG! on Microsoft's Antivirus Briefly Flags Google.com As Malicious · · Score: 0, Troll

    Since everyone knows Microsoft's Bing uses Google search results - and denies it this means users of their own "search engine" are hit too. Spock: "Fascinating".

  10. You may scoff, but style is everything on Why Microsoft Developers Need a Style Guide · · Score: 4, Funny

    Choose the single leg double-hand overarm for distance.
    Or, if you want maximum impact, and hence noise when the chair lands, go for height: a full seat grab upper thrust is your best option.
    Then there's the full intimidator, often accompanied with shrieks alluding to colorfully burying someone whilst holding it by two legs high above your head - this move requires two full laps of the office before deployment.

  11. Damn! That Chrome update just broke my browser... on How Much Stuff Can Timothy Jam Into His New Hoodie's Pockets? (Video) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I definitely have "Ads disabled" checked but they're still coming through thick and fast :-(

  12. Re:And Apple's Worried? on Apple Could Lose $1.6 Billion In iPad Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    There was another Apple too. I hear they had something to do with music...

  13. The only advantage iPhone users have over Android on Apple Loses German Court Bid To Ban Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N, Nexus Phone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is that they get to see what's coming in their handsets a year from now by looking at the current top end Android models on sale. I hear NFC is undergoing the usual transformation from "iPhone users don't need that" to "our amazing innovation" in the next model, the same way multitasking, speech recognition, widgets and usable notifications did.

  14. Re:RFID on Mechanic's Mistake Trashes $244 Million Aircraft · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "You can get nearly 2,000 tags for about $100"
    You or I could, but the essential middlemen selling the same stuff to the government would add at least three zeros to the end of that figure

  15. Re:It's a secret plot by apple on Google's SPDY Could Be Incorporated Into Next-Gen HTTP · · Score: 3, Funny

    And Microsoft to merely wrap some bloatware round it and call it their own, like they do with their "search engine".

  16. Why does the Beatles record label hate copying so? on Apple Has Spent More Than $100 Million Suing Android Manufacturers · · Score: 1

    Oh, wait ... you're talking of some other company which, err, copied their name. I'll get my coat...

  17. Michelle Obama drover her car last week on US Government Seeks Extradition of UK Student For File-Sharing · · Score: 1

    That's illegal in Saudi Arabia. Apparently it no longer matters where the crime was committed, nor is ignorance of any foreign countries laws a defence, so get her criminal ass extradited and in jail over there right away!

  18. Its open season for m$ bashing too on Customers Gleefully Mock Best Buy's $1,095.99 HDMI · · Score: 0

    Not much cheer for them over in the comments section of The Registers story of the Galaxy S II outselling the Lumia 100 to 1. It would be terrible if anyone were to see this as a way to get back at them is some small way for the $5 per Android handset they extort, head over their and join in.

  19. So it's badly written & only helps the carrier on EFF Reverse Engineers Carrier IQ · · Score: 3, Insightful

    All it needs now is a $5 per Android handset "licensing fee" and you've got your smoking gun!

  20. Re:Slashdot: now part of Microsoft on ITC Judge: Motorola Mobility Infringed Microsoft Patent · · Score: 1

    The point of /. is for people willing to stand up for what they believe in to make a statement about it and stand by it. If they say something they aren't prepared to admit to in the real world, they do it as an an Anonymous Coward.

  21. Microsoft is now the cancer on ITC Judge: Motorola Mobility Infringed Microsoft Patent · · Score: 2

    How ironic

  22. Re:User satisfaction level . . . ? on Munich's Move To Linux Exceeds Target · · Score: 1

    Aren't those the exact arguments the cloud people use?

  23. Re:steve balmer on Munich's Move To Linux Exceeds Target · · Score: 2

    Well, he did learn from this experience so when it was Finlands turn he just sent a puppet.

  24. Microsoft do a browser? on Chrome 15 Overtakes IE 8 For Top Browser Spot · · Score: 2

    Well I never. Next you'll be saying they do a mobile OS, or even more far-fetched: a search engine.

  25. Re:NFC on Google Wallet Stores Card Data In Plain Text · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That's what Apple tells its users when they ask why it wasn't on the iPhone 4S. The one with the tiny screen. And no 4G. Thankfully all that will change next summer when it will of course be trumpeted as a fantastic innovation on the iPhone5 and Apple can begin the busy work of suing everyone else copying their work.

    Actually NFC is even funnier than that - they way the rollout is going you'll soon have checkouts offering "Fast Phone Payments" or however they spin it, so those with the right equipment (cough!) can zip past those standing in line next to them at the regular checkout with their fingers in their ears going "la la la la don't need that la la la pretend we're outside an Apple store la la la".